Re: [Groff] troff syntax and useability

[Peter Schaffter]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002, Larry Kollar wrote:
> Aha. You know, certainly, that troff was written to drive a 1970s
> vintage phototypesetter. Some of troff's funky features were a
> direct result of that. For example, the C/A/T supported type sizes
> from 4 to 39 points,

4 to 39?  Wow!  The first typesetting computer I met (a Quadritek)
could only do 5-1/2 to 36 point.  We had to do PMTs (photomechanical
transfers, for those who don't know the graphics biz) to get type
smaller or larger than that.  Except for the Univers family.  For some
reason, it went down to 4 point.  Man, those were definitely NOT the
days!

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